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20050105 Wednesday January 05, 2005

 Oi! Stop pinching my cycles!

Like all good internet citizens I run a virus program,anti-adware and firewall programs on my PC whenever it is running Windows (and there's a firewall and antivirus on JDS too as it happens).

Out of curiosity, when I last rebuilt my laptop I ran some tests to see how much performance and memory I had to sacrifice to run these, nowadays, essential services.

Well, the answer is about 30 Megabytes of RAM and around 20% of the performance of my PC.

Therefore, over the last year, these spammers and worm writers have cost me around 2.1024*10^14 cpu cycles and about £10 of memory. Can I get some compensation please?

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 The quest for the simple desktop...

Having been through the pain of setting up friends and family PCs (see earlier blog) I really do wish somebody would hurry up and crack the 'thin client device as a service' problem. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just rent a desktop for a fixed £££ a month.

I know it wouldn't be appealing to us super techy types but a simple laptop style wireless device that does email, calendar, addresses, web browsing, music, video and games and is easy to use can't be beyond the wit of mankind to produce, make profitable and good quality proposition.

I simply can't see the general public putting up with phishing, virii, constant upgrades, security problems and errant hardware for much longer. My wife made comment that she doesn't have to put up with her washing machine or microwave deciding to stop working for no apparent reason every so often, so why should the computer be so different?

Obviously, not being in the IT profession so doesn't realise how totally unreasonable it is to ask for something to actually be reliable and dependable....



( Jan 05 2005, 10:26:50 AM GMT / Jan 05 2005, 10:03:14 AM GMT ) Permalink Comments [0]
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Yep, me.
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